The two trainers scurried out from the restaurant, satisfied smiles on their faces. It was funny on how they chowed down on their food like a greedy and food-powered Miltank, in a good way – seeing the fact how hungry they were for the delicious food.
Red outstretched his arms and moved his hips around as a petty warm-up for any consequences. "I'm so stuffed, I could cry." He stated, a fake shaky smile on his lips.
"Be my guest." Leaf joked, laughing at his outburst as she punched his arm weakly. "Just don't strain yourself." She ended nonchalantly, marching forward with a trudging trainer on her tail.
As they walked, they could vaguely hear a few gossips about the gym that resides in this very city; but little did they know about its current closure for undetermined reasons. But rather than that, this mostly charged up the red-capped trainer that he jolted past Leaf.
Leaf, dumbfounded and paralyzed by her companion's vamoose, lost her own composure as she found herself following the trail of a vague scent of beef. Running past people in agile speed, excluding jumping because of her profoundly feminine anatomy, she took a whole glimpse of Red looking up at a fairy big yet flat stretched building.
"Is that-" She began, gawking up at her first encounter of a gym. Sure she watched a few interviews in her television about the gymleaders and gym puzzles that each gym occupies, she thought it would be never that she will take off and compete in one.
Red grinned broadly and fist pumped the air with pride. "It's the first gym!" He exclaimed excitedly, facing down at Leaf as an imperceptible gesture for her to somehow express her inner joy.
Leaf's cheerful and childish personality would be hard to contradict her excitement. She bounced with joy and looked up at him with a determined yet cheeky smile. "Yeah, I know! I'm pretty excited for it!" She chimed in with his loud outburst.
Red nodded, looking back at the glass doors – expecting it to open for them as he took a step forward. Though it unusually didn't budge which made the trainer somewhat impatient and biting. He thought of knocking the door but it did the same thing.
"Umm, Red?" Leaf called out worriedly, a frown tugging down her lips. "I don't think the gym is open." She spoke out, tugging on his arm.
Red grumbled and knocked on the glass doors again, this time; a bit more force was added. Unfortunately, the doors swung open that revealed a man dressed in black with an 'R' symbol embellished on the center of his shirt.
The boy tensed up as the man pushed him back on the floor and said. "Get lost, punk! The gym ain't open!" He asserted, hopping back in as the glass doors closed suddenly.
"Fire!" Leaf called out in concern, afflicted with worry as she saw the boy flinched on the floor. Not giving any care for calling him by his first name, she was assured that calling people by their first names would show more concern.
She ran to him, grasping his hand as she pulled him up. "Are you okay?" She asked, her eyebrows furrowed in curves.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine." He groaned, slowly standing up – sending up a glare at the gym. At first, he thought every gyms would greet him fairly so no harm with be done, but this wasn't the first impression he was getting up for. He should be less candid when approaching someone next time.
Leaf sighed and pointed at a forest nearby with a weak smile. "I don't think this is the first gym, but how about we warm up and catch a few Pokémon for the team?" She suggested, foreseeing that battling a gym will make them split paths for independency – and so she thought that catching Pokémon would be their first memory for being a trainer.
"Sure." He replied, nodding in agreement as they both proceed their path to the dark and bug-filled Viridan Forest.
A forest filled with nature and Bug-type Pokémon. – was written cleanly on a wooden sign.
The two trainers sauntered through the forest, becoming more mindful for any Pokémon that dared to leap out and attack them; because they would rather not remember about their first wild Pokémon battle, now they were strategizing new plans to at least be more self-aware.
Their thoughts were quickly diminished when rustling sounds suddenly let loose – honestly frightening the female trainer. Leaf wasn't in favor of bug types, frankly, she doesn't know where to put their kind in her privilege. Blue once teased her with his home-cared Weedle which unfortunately succeeded in turning off her daylights.
Red, aware of her frightened state, grabbed out his Pokéball to send out his Charmander as self-defense; until that mysterious Pokémon takes advantage to leap out from the spot. A few moments ticked and yet nothing dared to come out. He looked at Leaf that sent question almost unperceivably, to whom Leaf nodded in answer.
The red-capped trainer trotted towards the bush but that came out as a sneaky movement, almost as stealthy as a Persian; though he was slowly picking up speed like his veins were about to burst from suspense.
Then he pushed down a handful of the green bush that was suspected to be the only bush rustling, he slowly peered through the fruitful piece of nature – only to seek a pair of Pikachu fighting over a hollow yet juicy spurting Pecha Berry, a common yet deliciously sweet treat.
How the two trainers were surprised, the Pokémon Pikachu weren't really common in any of the regions so this will be their first rare Pokémon achievement. It seems like they lost their way from their nest and came across each other.
"I'll need to…" Leaf began as a soft whisper, pulling out her Pokédex from her yellow bag as she booted the device up to inspect the rare Pokémon willingly with it – to ensure herself that she's not predicting wrong of it.
She thought the device's digitally involved voice won't bother the two Pikachu's current activity so it shouldn't be a problem to them.
Beep, beep.
"Pikachu, the Mouse Pokémon – it sometimes thrives for food and would forage out for any particular kind of berry for most of the time these rodents are rather picky. These rare Pokémon are tricky to find and catch." Leaf's Pokédex chimed up, vibrating every word it let out. "It is highly recommended to think of a strategy before setting foot to capture one." It suggested.
It would help, the two trainers kept on rambling about diversities strategies in their mind so it would hopefully be less of a challenge.
Leaf looked up at red-capped trainer and opened her mouth to speak. "Well-"
"I've heard." Red said almost instantaneously, quickly throwing his Pokéball that sent out his brave little Charmander; roaring in preparation for battle.
Leaf sighed and walked to the quarreling and charged up Pikachu, plucking out a Pecha Berry along the way. The two Pikachu didn't seem to notice her presence that they instead growled over the berry, as if it was focalized with the spotlight.
It didn't seem like they were in the same gender – opposites conflict, not that Leaf was surprised, but she was honestly into these romantic drama films where the female despises the male; but eventually turns out that she was hiding her feelings for him, then again, the male receives the same feelings. Mutual feelings of a pair are just her taste of romance.
"Leaf, what're you doing?" Red whisper-shouted as a question, both of his hands were around his mouth to make his voice audible enough to hear. "We're supposed to catch them, not just waltz in when they can paralyze you!" He continued, tapping his head to emphasize how he thinks the level of her dementedness is.
Leaf clicked her tongue and rolled her eyes, crouching down as an attempt to reach their eye level; but it seemed impossible from how tall she is compared to the rodents. This time, the two mouse Pokémon felt her nearing and looked up at her with concern and caution.
She smiled sweetly and handed a newly plucked Pecha Berry which the presumably male Pikachu went by and hesitantly took it from her hands. Now with that out of hand, this left the two Pikachu with one Pecha Berry each – satisfying them enough, they were happy with balance.
The white-hatted trainer looked like she was biting for more. "Apologize?" Leaf suggested, smiling cheekily as she observed the two rodents interact with each other with their adorable voices.
"P-Pika?" The male Pikachu started, its cute black eyes gazing back at the female one with a shaky breath. Red believed that this one never apologized to a girl Pikachu before, considering that it might be a little too young than he expected.
"Chuuu…" The female Pikachu replied, certain guilt washing over her as she breathed out a sigh with her ears droop.
"Pika!"
"Chu!"
Red smiled genuinely before letting out a chuckle as he watched the two adorable rodents interact with their own style of communication; he wasn't bothered by the fact that he can't understand a word they were saying, but he mainly focuses on their expression and tone of voice – which he can determine their mood. "That's adorable." He said suddenly, patting the head of the salamander.
"Yeah, I second that." Leaf chimed in, a sheepish grin on her face as she watched the two Pokémon run around as if a new friendship quickly abounded between them. "This somehow gives me that same feeling when we were young." She thought, closing her eyes as a haze of nostalgic bliss faded in her mind.
No hesitation required for the rodents, but two of them hopped forward – one each in front of one trainer. Were they requesting to be in the team? It suddenly felt like Leaf was obliging them to join their team because of her binding kindness; other than that, Leaf has a big fond of rare yet cute Pokémon, and that was stemmed from the fact how distractive her surroundings were.
"Wow, how'd you get them to join you?" Red questioned, a feeling of immense awe pondering his thoughts.
"Us," Leaf corrected, carrying the female Pikachu with utmost care. "A little bird told me." She giggled, her phrase not seemingly answering his question.
Red grinned brashly and grabbed out a spare Pokéball from his belt, subsequently with his Charmander's Pokéball to put him right back. "Oh ha, how do I like catch a Pokémon when they don't want to battle?" He asked out of the blue, fumbling around with the empty Pokéball with the Pikachu in devoid.
The white-hatted trainer simply shrugged in reply, not that she's really experienced – what is she to know too much? This left the trainer with one question but the Pikachu perkily bopped its head on the Pokéball's button and ended up being capsulized.
One shake…
Two shakes…
Three shakes…
Beep.
"Wow." Red said lowly, looking at the container to peer over to the rodent – only to see his reflection from the solid look of the ball. "I got a Pikachu, this time it isn't a plushie!" He announced, grinning like a mischievous Meowth as he held up the Pokéball, pluming himself.
Leaf held out an empty Pokéball and the Pikachu happily obliged by letting herself in the capsule. Following by several shakes, the Pokéball glowed in alert as it has caught it. "So do I!" She sang and gestured her free hand at her Pokéball.
"Can't wait to put my Pikachu for battle!" Red added, casting a certain determined glance at Leaf. "You wanna go for a round?" He asked, grinning almost devilishly as a thought said he would win.
Leaf laughed sarcastically before grinning back at him. "You bet, I'm always here to kick ass." She appended to his request, holding out a Pokéball that contained her dearest Daisy.
"You are so on."